DOMESTIC NEWS: In implementing political and economic reforms, ease of ethnic conflicts needs to be considered - Only when such reforms are carried out, will national reconciliation be achieved and ethnic conflicts ended [Chairman of Union Peace-making Central Committee President U Thein Sein addresses the first meeting of the Union Peace-making Central Committee]...Cash and kind donated for local people in Rakhine State...Upgrading ceremony of BEPS to Post-Primary School held...Basic tailoring course to kick off on 13 July...Librarian multiplier course opened in Mingala Taungnyunt Township...Ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking observed...Cash assistance provided to students of Township WVO...Rainy season trees growing ceremony held in Tamu...AGM HELD; CITIZENSHIP CARDS ISSUED; CITIZENSHIP CARDS ISSUED; CSC ISSUED [photos]...Regional ASEAN Dengue Day observed in Shwebo...DHF taken in Insein Township (sic)...Mogaung Township holds tree growing ceremony...Danu National Democracy Party allowed to register as political party [UEC]...One Defence Services Personnel Pyithu Hluttaw Representative substituted [UEC]...Health care provided to people in Maungtaw District...Inter-Region/State Champion Challenge Women?s Traditional Boat Race concludes...Dy Construction Minister attends meeting on upgrading of Monywa- Pale-Gangaw-Haka Road...Model paddy plot harvested with use of combine harvester...Furniture, stationery donated to BEPS in South Okkalapa Township...Plan under way to establish public edible oil company...Shwegu GAD provides uniforms, cash assistance to staff, offspring...Income, commercial tax payers honoured...One generator as reserve equipment arrives in Monywa...Palethwe hybrid paddy harvested on model plot...Monsoon paddy cultivated in Ingapu...Citizenship scrutiny cards issued in Myingyan Township...Loan disbursed in Tatkon for cultivation of paddy...Myanmar Women?s Day marked in Nay Pyi Taw...Inter-University/College men?s volleyball tourney of (Lower Myanmar zone) kicks off...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall (3-7-2012)..... EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein sends message of felicitations to US President...Global MBA Offshore Programme launched at UMFCCI...Union Foreign Minister felicitates US counterpart...Talks for Myanmar-Thai entrepreneurs...Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister attends Myanmar-Bangladesh Foreign Office Consultations...Myanmar delegation led by Dy Health Minister arrives back...Friendly basketball match played..... "PERSPECTIVES": "A new development policy".....ARTICLE: "Sacred Tant Kyi Taung Hill" Sithu Dr. Khin Maung Nyunt